State Cheer Competition

On February 25th Justin's cheer team went to District's and qualified to go to the State Cheer Competition in Boise.

They arrived in Boise on Friday, March 3rd, ready to win.

Their performances were the best they had done all season which paid off in 2nd place in Show, 3rd place in Pom and their combined grades added up for the win of the Academic Champions for 5A schools.

It was a great way for all of the seniors to end their high school cheer career.

Justin was proud of both the Academic Award and the 2nd Place Award because they both represented a huge part of the hard work he put into his senior year.

After the competition the rest of the team loaded up on the bus for the five hour ride home. Justin and I stayed in a hotel that night and took our time wandering home the next day. As we came to Twin Falls we spontaneously decided to stop at Shoshone Falls to see how it compared to the previous year. The abundance of snow that we had experienced during the previous winter filled the rivers and made for some beautiful, raging falls.

We decided not to fight the extremely long line of traffic to get down to the bottom of the canyon and close to the falls but instead we trespassed for an overlook shot. We found the falls to be impressive from any angle (in the canyon in 2016 or at the rim in 2017) and from what we were told by another family that made the very slow drive one mile down the canyon, it saved us nearly two hours.